The St. Johns herald., 1887-10-13
Newt VOrce the Cowboy.

iulleS 0dSG Ol IleIlV0T, OH In0 Adu-
 sas Pacific Railroad. Deputy Sher-
 ifs from Denver have gone out to
 capture him, and came back with blanched faces and trembling
 hearts. The cattlemen of the
 neighborhood, who suffer daily by
 his depredations, are seriously
 thinking of taking the law into
 their own hands, and they are loud
 in denunciation of Arapahoe coun- ty authorities, who they say are
 afraid to tackle the man. The tel-
 low is an escaped convict named Newt Vorce. He has been in Col
 orado for ten or twelve years, but
 nobody knows where he came from.
 For the past four or five years he
 hasworked for the cattlemen around
 Deer Trail. His last employers
 were the Mill Iron Cattle Company
 of Denver, who have a large horse
 ranch some distance from Deer Trail. Newt, who is about thirty five and rather good looking man,
 had no particularly bad habits
 when he first appeared in the coun- try.
 He would get drunk once in a
 while, iand had a playful way of shooting at his fellow-men's feet when he wanted them to dance. Many cowboy has executed a highland hornpipe to the music of Newt's revolver. Otherwise he was a nice, pleasant sort of a compan- ion, good-hearted and agreeable and hard-working He got along very we'll until a grass-widow, who owns a house and some horses and sheep within a hundred yards of Deer Trail station, won his affec- tion. Then he drank all the more freely when he felt himself yearn- ing for cow-hide boot ballet. The woman helped to keep him drunk. He would ride to her twenty-five miles at night and get back to his range by daylight next morning. He became a nuisance, and twice the Mill Iron Cattle Company dis charged him. Last fall he nearly killed an old cattle man named Gal lagher, smashing him over the head with a bottle in George Hodges sa- loon. The blow felled Gallagher, when Vorce began jumping upon him, and afterward shooting pro- miscuously around the saloon.
 The crowd of course broke for the door and got outside. One of the boys, braver than the rest, poked his rifle through the door, pushed it open, and covering Vorce made him throw up his hands. They de- termined 10 arrest him. He surren- dered, but on leaving the saloon ran among a lot of railroad men and began firing. His pursuers fol- lowed and again captured him. He was brought to Denver and tried for an aggravated assault and con victed and sentenced to 9 months in the County Jail. He served sev- eral months, when he made his es- cape and returned to Deer Trail, where he has been ever since. He has seven stolen horses staked out, and almost daily breaks open sta ble locks and kicks Tn cabin doors, and does some stealing. He hides in the ravines around Deer Trail during the day, the grass widow and her little girl carrying him his meals. At night he usually sleeps in the widows house. He has been at Elarge for six weeks, and contin- ues to grow bolder the longer his capture is delayed. He has a brace of revolvers and a Winchester, and has given out time and again that he will never be taken alive.
 The woman watches every train that stops at Deer Trail, and if stranger gets off she jumps on a horse, rides to the town and ascer- tains if he is an officer of the law, or if he is after Newt. A few weeks